Monday, April 30, 2012

It is Election Day in Greece - With their heads on the chopping block the politicians finally respond to illegal Muslim immigration

Over 130,000 Muslim illegal aliens crossed into Greece last year

21,000 people who crossed into Greece this year were Afghanis.

The far-right Golden Dawn Party which wants to deport all immigrants may pick up seats in the election.

Greece opened its first purpose-built detention center for illegal migrants on Sunday in Athens, a week before a national election
where illegal immigration has emerged as a key issue.

About 130,000 immigrants cross the country's porous sea and land borders
every year, the vast majority via Turkey,
and the authorities are forced to release those who are arrested because of a
lack of permanent housing.

With Greece in its fifth year of recession and worries over rising crime
levels, illegal immigration has become a major issue in the run up of the May 6
election.

Illegal Muslim immigrants are seen through the fence of a detention center in the village of Fylakio, on the Greek-Turkish border. (Sakis Mitrolidis / AFP)

The once-obscure far-right Golden Dawn, which wants to deport all immigrants,
is among the parties that has benefitted most from the mood among voters, and is
expected to win its first seats in parliament.

Greece's ruling Socialist PASOK and conservative rival New Democracy parties
have also pledged to crack down on immigration to try to win over
voters.

On Sunday, the first 56 immigrants were brought to the Amygdaleza detention
camp in western Athens, a police official said. Dozens more are expected at the
camp in the next few days, which can house up to 1,000 people, the official
said.

Amygdaleza is the first of about 50 camps that Greek officials say will be
built by mid-2013. It consists of dozens of containers that were originally set
up to house people hit by natural disasters such as earthquakes.

"We are sending a message in every direction that the country is not unfenced
anymore," Civil Protection Minister Mihalis Chrysohoidis said at a rally in
Athens.

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The nations of Eastern Europe fought hard for their independence from the
oppressive Muslim Ottoman dictatorship. Unless unlimited immigration is ended
the culture of nations like Greece would vanish from the earth.

Another Islamist attack on Christians at church.People assess damage from the bombing in Kaduna (AFP, Victor Ulasi)

Islamic Terrorism - The endless cold blooded murder of Christians while at church goes on and on.

Islamist gunmen attacked church services on a university campus Sunday in northern Nigeria, using small explosives to draw out and gun
down panicking worshippers in an assault that killed at least 21 people,
officials said.

The attackers targeted an old section of Bayero University’s campus, where
religious groups use a theater and other areas to hold worship services, Kano
state police spokesman Ibrahim Idris
said.

The assault left many others seriously wounded, Idris said.

“By the time we responded, they entered [their] motorcycles and disappeared
into the neighborhood,” he said.

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Explosions and gunfire rocked Bayero University in the northern city of Kano, with witnesses reporting that two church services were targeted as they were being held on campus.

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One of the services was being held outdoors, while the second was inside a building, but with an overflow audience outside, witnesses said.

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Abubakar Jibril, a spokesman for Nigeria's National
Emergency Management Agency, said security forces refused to allow rescuers
to enter the campus. Soldiers also turned away journalists from the university.

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Andronicus Adeyemo, an official
with the Nigerian Red Cross,
said a canvass of local hospitals and morgues showed the attack killed at least 21 people. Several people suffered injuries, though the aid agency did not
immediately have an exact figure, Mr.
Adeyemo said.

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In January, a coordinated assault on government buildings and other sites in
Kano by Boko Haram killed at least 185 people. Since then, the sect has been
blamed for attacking police stations and carrying out smaller assaults in the
city.

Saturday, April 28, 2012

A Palestinian man being evicted from his home by Israeli police.."The legislature acts against the trust reposed in them, when they endeavour to invade the property of the subject, and to make themselves, or any part of the community, masters, or arbitrary disposers of the lives, liberties or fortunes of the people".John Locke

Property Rights - More families are having their homes taken from them.

"Thou shalt not steal," appears to be optional.

Be honest with yourself. Is it justice for an Israeli court to tell an Arab he does not own the home he is living in?

How can there be any hope of peace in the Middle East when people are being thrown out of their homes?

Personally I do not have a dog in the eternal Arab-Israeli land fight. I just want both sides to shut the Hell up, treat each other with some respect and live in peace. But I am a dreamer.

But it is fascinating to watch how people knee-jerk to the news. This last week yet more Arab families had their homes taken away from them by an Israeli court and were thrown into the streets. Americans who call themselves "Conservatives" were happy to knee-jerk in favor of Israel.

That is the part I find interesting. These so-called "Conservatives" should be on the side of property rights. The right to hold private property is central to Conservatism. But when the conversation turns to Muslim or Christian Arabs, suddenly "Conservatives" forget property rights in a rush to take sides with Israel.

This last week United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory Maxwell Gaylard condemned the eviction of Palestinian families in Beit Hanina Wednesday.

“Evictions of Palestinians from their homes and properties in occupied territory contravene international law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention, and should cease," Gaylard said in a statement reported by the Jerusalem Post.

Arabs thrown out of their homes

Tensions rose in the normally quiet Beit Hanina neighborhood of east Jerusalem after an Arab family was evicted from its home on Wednesday morning, and a half dozen young activists from the Israel Land Fund moved into the house immediately afterwards. .Khaled Natche, his wife, Lubna, and their nine children were evicted after an eight-year legal battle found that the land was legally purchased by Jews. .The eviction of the Natche family is the first step toward creating a Jewish complex of 50 apartments in the predominantly Arab neighborhood, according to Israel Land Fund director Aryeh King. King said a Jewish man purchased two buildings in the neighborhood 35 years ago. The properties also belonged to Jewish residents prior to 1948, he said.

The court ordered the families to pay NIS 250,000 to the Israel Land Fund for damages resulting from the court case, but King promised to waive the debt if the families moved out voluntarily.

Natche refused to leave, and told The Jerusalem Post two weeks ago that he would never give up the keys to his home.

Natche said police arrived at his home at 9 a.m. and detained him for questioning at the Neveh Ya’acov police station for two hours. While he was being questioned, officers removed the family members from the house and put their belongings in a truck. The eviction was completed without violence.

At noon, Natche sat in his car outside of his former home with his wife and four of his youngest children, and said he did not know where he would sleep that evening.

Video - 'They give building permits to Jews but not to Arabs.'

“What can I do?” he asked. “I can’t do anything. These are the results of an occupying government, this is a mafia.”

Natche’s lawyer, Khalid Masalha, petitioned the Jerusalem District Court for a temporary injunction to stop the Jewish activists from moving into the home, but the petition was denied around 3 p.m.

The Israel Land Fund head hopes to build a Jewish neighborhood called “Nof Shmuel,” or View of Samuel, with 50 apartments. The name refers to the tomb of the Prophet Samuel north of Ramot, which is visible from the neighborhood.

Israeli police arrest a young man. His family was forced to hand over their home of 50 years to Jewish settlers in the Israeli annexed east Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, on April 18, 2012. (AFP/Getty Images)

Meet and visit the farm of Daoud Nassar. "The Israelis want this whole area. Their plan is to force as many of us as possible to leave," said Palestinian Christian Daoud Nassar, who is fighting to hold on to his family's farm in Nahalin that they have owned since 1916. Visit Daoud's web-site at "Friends of the Tent."

The Minister is coming back. As the owner of the complete DVD set I cannot wait, but I do fully expect to boooo at the screen.

Sometimes re-makes work. But overall it is not wise to try and re-make a Casablanca, a I Love Lucy or a Twilight Zone. Those shows are all snapshots in a certain time and place. Trying to make them "modern" mostly does not work. .In any case, nearly a quarter of a century on, the much-lauded satirical sitcom Yes, Prime Minister is set to return to our screens for a new series seemingly based on the current Coalition government reports the UK Telegraph..This time around the Rt. Hon Jim Hacker, previously played by the late Paul Eddington, will be confronting “the greatest economic crisis in a generation”. To give the new series a further contemporary twist, Number 10 will also face issues over a Scottish referendum on independence and the possible collapse of the European Union.

Video - A clear conscience. From "Yes, Prime Minister"

Filming is expected to start over the summer but executives have yet to finalize details of who will be cast in the roles of Hacker, his permanent secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby and Bernard Wooley, his famously obtuse principal private secretary. .Jane Rogerson, Director of Commissioning at UKTV, said: “The political landscape in Britain today is the perfect setting for Yes, Prime Minister to return.

Video - The Nuclear Button

Yes, Minister, set principally in Jim Hacker’s private office within the fictional Department for Administrative Affairs, was first broadcast in 1980 and ran for four years. .Its sequel,Yes, Prime Ministerbegan in 1986 and followed the beleaguered Hacker as he continued to clash with his civil servants on becoming Prime Minister.

Video - Government Policy PolicyIf you have ever wondered what the Hell civil service hacks are talking about, then watch this video.

Sir Humphrey Appleby was played by the late Nigel Hawthorne, who died in 2001, and Derek Fowlds starred as Bernard. The series received huge critical acclaim and was even enjoyed by the then incumbent Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. .Writers Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay, who co-wrote the original series and were involved in its later stage production, were confirmed as being the authors of the new programs. The six-part series is expected to be screened either at the end of this year or at the beginning of next, and will be filmed in front of a live audience in London. (UK Telegraph)

Friday, April 27, 2012

BIG BROTHER - The bill is an "unprecedented, sweeping piece of legislation that would waive every single privacy law ever enacted in the name of cybersecurity." - - - Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.)

A bi-partisan rape of the Constitution.

Do Republicans actually believe in anything????

The House on Thursday tore the Bill of Rights into small pieces and then pissed on what remained. They went ahead and approved the controversial Big Brother cybersecurity legislation bill CISPA.

In violation of the Bill of Rights, the government will get around the 4th Amendment by having multi-national corporations spy and gather information on you as agents for the Feds.

Members approved the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection (CISPA) act, H.R. 3523, in a 248-168 vote that split both parties somewhat. The bill was supported by 42 Democrats, while 28 Republicans opposed it.

The legislation allows the national security state to circumvent the Constitution and allow carte blanche surveillance of the internet computer networks to private computers. Passage of CISPA is a milestone for the high-tech surveillance police state now going in place.

CISPA can no longer be called a cybersecurity bill at all. The government would be able to search information it collects under CISPA for the purposes of investigating American citizens with complete immunity from all privacy protections as long as they can claim someone committed a “cybersecurity crime”. Basically it says the 4th Amendment does not apply online, at all. Moreover, the government could do whatever it wants with the data as long as it can claim that someone was in danger of bodily harm.

A military team of airborne troops from Russia will go to the U.S. in May for a joint anti-terror exercise, a Russian defense ministry official said.

The New York Daily News reports that a detachment from Russia's Airborne Assault Forces (AAF) will take part in the exercise between May 24-31 at Fort Carson, Colorado, said defence ministry spokesman Col. Alexander Kucherenko.

"This is the first time such an exercise is being held," he said.

"The AAF will contribute a special task group that will exercise with US special service weapons," he said.

The Russian group will arrive a week before the start of the drills, he added.

The exercises, which will mark the first time the respective country’s two airborne forces have held joint drills on U.S. territory, will revolve around the the “reconnaissance of imaginary terrorists’ camp and a raid,” and will also involve evacuations of the troops by helicopter.

The Russian soldiers will also be given access to U.S. special service weapons at Fort Carson.

In one of the biggest land confrontations in Vietnam, about 2,000 Vietnamese villagers hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails on Tuesday at a larger group of armed security forces moving to seize their land in the outskirts of the capital Hanoi, witnesses said.Backed by bulldozers, cranes, and excavators, more than 3,000 police and military personnel and unidentified men not in uniform moved in at the break of dawn to occupy 70 hectares (173 acres) of land in the district of Van Giang just east of Hanoi reports Radio Free Asia.In the seven-hour siege, police fired warning shots to keep the people at bay while the farmers resisted the occupation by throwing bricks, glass bottles, stones, and Molotov cocktails, the witnesses said.

"Two thousand farmers from three villages of Van Giang District rallied and fought thousands of policemen and soldiers who came [to take] a 70-hectare area early in the morning," one resident of Xuan Quan village told RFA. "There were 3,000 or more [security forces].""We [told them] this is our land, we have not sold it and not yet taken [any] payments."One villager said their crops were mostly destroyed. Ten residents from the Phung Cong and Xuan Quan villages were arrested.

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Local authorities want to take back the land for use in a satellite city development.

The farmers said local authorities granted developer Viet Hung Co. Ltd. some 500 hectares (1,235 acres) of their land without conducting fair negotiations with their representatives.

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The project was halted following a series of protests in 2006, but the farmers say development has since restarted.

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All land in Communist Vietnam belongs to the state, and people only have the right to use it. Land expropriation has been linked to several high-profile incidents of unrest in recent years.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

The Road to Serfdom Series - New Zealand is becoming a "Food Colony" of Communist China

Chinese companies connected and interconnected with the Communist Party are buying up farmland, oil and mineral rights in nations all over the world.

The Chinese Food Colonies around the world do not put their harvest on the open market for all to purchase. They are exported to China.

New Zealand's government has for the second time approved the contentious sale of 16 dairy farms to Communist Chinese "investors", despite objections from critics who say the country's prosperity could be jeopardized by such transactions.

The sale of farmland, the first to Chinese investors, has sparked vigorous debate in a country that is reliant on agriculture for much of its export earnings but which is also forging closer trade and tourism ties with China.

The sale was initially approved by the government in January but was contested in court by a consortium of local farmers and businessmen who hoped to buy the land themselves reports the Miami Herald.

Winston Peters, the leader of the anti-immigration New Zealand First party, said in a statement the sale was a "treachery and betrayal"of New Zealanders and part of a push by the center-right National Party-led government to sell off the country's assets and land.

The sale is to Shanghai Pengxin, which has said it will spend more than 200 million New Zealand dollars ($163 million) to buy and improve the 7,900 hectares (20,000 acres) of farmland.

Alan McDonald, a spokesman for the consortium opposing the deal, said it has one more legal appeal making its way through the court system and that the group is reviewing its legal options after the latest decision.

Slavery returns to Africa.The corrupt government of Sierra Leone has sold nearly 20% of their nation to foreign investors. The property rights of the locals are not respected.

Conditions at the foreign owned plantation are "near-slavery"

Foreigners buy up land from the corrupt government at rock bottom prices.

There is no thought for the property rights of the local people.

From the UK Guardian - Alusine Kortu says he hasn't seen any big, new agricultural investments in the
Bonthe district of southern Sierra Leone. But the local chief has heard rumours
about large-scale land deals in other parts of the west African country – where
estimates suggest nearly 20% of farmland has been snapped up by investors – and
says he wants to be ready if and when companies come to his area.

.A Corrupt Government forces the sale of private property to foreigners

Ten
years after the end of civil war in Sierra Leone, the government is taking great
pains to attract large-scale agribusiness investments, which it says will help
boost exports and employment opportunities. But some local NGOs and civil
society organisations argue the recent influx of investors has failed to deliver
promised jobs and income to local communities.

Last week, Kortu joined
more than 100 farmers and land rights activists from across the country in the
capital, Freetown, for a national assembly of communities affected by so-called
land grabs. Delegates at the conference, the first of its kind, urged the
government to immediately review all recent land deals and institute new
measures to balance the scales between rural communities and powerful foreign
investors. The assembly also saw the launch of a new civil society watchdog to
monitor agribusiness investments
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Last March, Socfin SL, a subsidiary of the Belgian investment company Societe
Financiere des Caoutchoucs (Socfin), secured a 50-year lease for 6,500 hectares
of farmland in Malen chiefdom for an annual rent of $5 per hectare. Socfin is
one of the world's largest plantation investors and a founding member of the
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.

In a letter to local authorities in October 2011, the Malen Land Owners
Association denounced working conditions at the foreign owned plantation as "near-slavery",
with labourers earning just over $2 a day in temporary jobs. The association
said arbitrary dismissals are common and that workers have been denied medical
care.

Calling for a "peaceful resolution of the land crisis", the group
said the annual payments of $5 per hectare were "unacceptable" and that local
farmers have not been adequately compensated for valuable trees and plants
destroyed in clearing the land.

The world is moving toward a modern form of Neo-Serfdom where everyone works for the all-powerful State or businesses controlled by the State. A world where individual property rights and economic freedom do not exist.

FREEDOM IS VANISHING: What happens when the major employers are owned by government backed investment groups, or your food comes from government owned farms, or your news is delivered by so-called "private" corporations but are in reality connected and interconnected to governments?

Comrade Obama is having his Fellow Travelers issue rules that a child could not work on their own family farm.

4-H and FFF would not be allowed to instruct the children of farmers. Only unionized Federal Drone worker-bees would be able to teach.

No sane person could vote Democrat.

The Obama Marxist controlled Department of non-Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that not only violates the Bill of Rights' 10th Amendment, but would use child-labor laws to prevent children working on family farms, and prohibiting them from performing a list of jobs on their own families’ land.

Under the new Stalinist rules, children under 18 could no longer work “in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials.”

The insane new regulations, first proposed August 31 by Socialist Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, would also revoke the government’s approval of safety training and certification taught by independent groups like 4-H and FFA, replacing them instead with a 90-hour federal government training course reports the Daily Caller.

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“I started showing sheep when I was four years old. I started with cattle around 8. It’s been very important. I learned a lot of responsibility being a farm kid," said Rossie Blinson, a 21-year-old college student from Buis Creek, N.C.

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In Kansas, Cherokee County Farm Bureau president Jeff Clark was out in the field — literally on a tractor — when TheDC reached him. He said if Solis’s regulations are implemented, farming families’ labor losses from their children will only be part of the problem.

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“Losing that work-ethic — it’s so hard to pick this up later in life,” Clark said. “There’s other ways to learn how to farm, but it’s so hard. You can learn so much more working on the farm when you’re 12, 13, 14 years old.”

Government apparatchiks will now oversee the business of local farming the same way Stalin did when he collectivized farms and “socialized” production at gunpoint in the Soviet Union. Resistance by farmers and peasants to Stalin’s efforts resulted in the government cutting off food rations, which resulted in widespread famine (the “terror-famine in Ukraine” killed around 12 million people) and millions were sent to forced labor camps.

The Marxist Labor Department’s effort to further erode the family farm falls on the heels of an unconstitutional executive order Obama issued last year establishing so-called rural councils.

In addition to attempting to micromanage – and run out of business – family farms through federal labor regulations, the government is trying to insert itself in the relationship between parents and their children.

The ongoing attacks on family farming are not merely misguided efforts by control freak bureaucrats. They are part of a larger “comprehensive plan of action” to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations to institute “sustainable development,” a philosophy designed to bring humanity under tight control of the global elite.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

A Hugo Chavez Government in the U.S.A Leftist Socialist Obama attack on businesses that dare to create jobs and wealth

2000 - In the year 2000 under a more pro-business Bill Clinton, zero cases were filed against American businesses regarding "bribery" in foreign nations.

2010 - Under Comrade Obama over two dozen cases against businesses were filed in a mafia-style shakedown.

Instead of using company money to create new jobs, Wal-Mart could pay hundreds of millions of dollars in legal expenses and penalties.

In a full-throated, red flag waving attack on capitalism, Comrade Obama's "Justice" Department is attacking dozens of companies on vague Federal charges of using bribery in foreign nations (yawn) to get their business started.

Oh horror of horrors! Do you mean to tell me that bribery is needed in many nations to get things done? Who would have thought it possible? How will I manage to sleep tonight?

Never mind that every member of our Congress has their hand out for "legal bribe money" in the form of campaign contributions. And that city halls and state government in the U.S. have a pay to play program for American businesses.

The Marxist Federal Justice Department is forcing Wal-Mart to take time away from their main job of creating jobs and wealth in order to defend itself regarding possible bribery campaign in Mexico.Wal-Mart could pay hundreds of millions of dollars in legal expenses and penalties.

To cover their asses, Wal-Mart said it was in the midst of a "worldwide review of our anti-corruption program" and had increased efforts to prevent corruption in Mexico. The Bentonville, Ark., company is looking into allegations that it engaged in a multiyear bribery campaign to build its business reports the Los Angeles Times.The allegations come at a time when the Marxist Justice Department has been looking for business targets in a pretend "crack down" on foreign corruption. It is really a Federal mafia-style shakedown of business.

The Justice Department filed some two dozen cases against U.S. companies in 2010, compared with none a decade earlier.

"You have an incredible amount of legal challenges that are going to take part as a result of these failures," said James Post, a business management professor at Boston University.

He said Wal-Mart also faces shareholder lawsuits, along with criminal charges and potential action by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Wal-Mart's Mexican subsidiary might have paid $24 million in bribes in order to speed the approval of new stores in Mexico, according to a report from the New York Times. Wal-Mart operates more than 2,000 locations in Mexico, its largest foreign presence.

The bribery allegations "will be used against the company by activists and companies when it attempts to open stores in the U.S. and abroad, and could make it more difficult to attract management talent in international markets," BMO Capital Markets analyst Wayne Hood said.

Enforcement of the law has become such a concern to business that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has lobbied for changes. It says that the law is vague and might discourage business.

Luis Tellez, head of the stock market in Mexico, defended Wal-Mart's performance. He said the retailer has met the market's financial reporting requirements and boosted the Mexican economy by creating jobs.

"Without doubt it has generated wealth in terms of work, wages for its employees and in terms of giving Mexican consumers shopping opportunities at low prices," Tellez said.

A Wal-Mart Superstore in Mexico City.The Socialist Democrats in the Obama regime have charged Wal-Mart and other companies with bribery in Mexico. The Obama Beltway Marxists want to keep these companies tied up for years in ultra-expensive legal battles instead of letting them alone to create new jobs and wealth.

The Coming American Police State.The Federal Government is pulling the noose tighter and tighter around the throats of a self-absorbed and oblivious American Sheeple obsessed with Twitter, Facebook and the latest celebrity breast implants.

Feds to buy 450,000,000 .40 caliber hollow point rounds for the Department of Homeland Security

The war in Iraq only used 66 million rounds a year.

Just take a wild guess what the Hell the DHS could use that many rounds for?

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), an agency that says its main purpose now is to thwart “homegrown terrorism,” has awarded a contract to ammunition manufacturer ATK for acquiring 450 million rounds of .40 caliber hollow point ammo. .You can view the announcement of the ammunition purchase at this press release:

Many people may not know this, but “hollow point” ammunition is never purchased for practice or training. This ammunition is purchased for the sole purpose of being used in active fighting. At the same time, it is a violation of the Geneva Convention to use hollow point ammunition on the battlefield.

This is crucial to understand. It means the federal government is acquiring this ammunition to be used against the American people. .The DHS does not fight wars overseas. . The DHS is a domestic agency with domestic responsibilities. Its purchase of .40 ammunition is a clear and obvious indication that DHS plans to wage some type of war on the American people.

In active battle operations in Iraq, ammunition was expended at the rate of 5.5 million rounds per month. That’s 66 million rounds in a year.

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A Harvard educated attorney, Ames was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was then elected to the 1st US Congress defeating Sam Adams for the post. He became an important thinker and leader of the Federalist Party. Ames feared for the future of an America under Jeffersonian politicians pandering to the mob to buy votes in order to gain personal power. He said, "I fear Federalism will not only die, but all remembrance of it will be lost."

Francis Scott Key, Federalist

Key was a Maryland attorney and Federalist Party opponent of the War of 1812. He wrote the U.S. national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner" during the Battle of Baltimore. Key opened a law office with fellow Federalist Roger Taney, a future U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice. He also practiced law with his uncle, Federalist Congressman Philip Barton Key.

James Schureman, Federalist

In the Revolution he raised a volunteer company in New Brunswick, New Jersey and led it as Captain. Fought in the Battle of Brooklyn where he was captured. Held as a prisoner of war until early in the spring of 1777 when he escaped to rejoin the Continental Army. Served in Continental Congress and as a Federalist in both the Congress and in the U.S. Senate from New Jersey.

John Sullivan, Federalist

Major General Continental Army. Commander in Quebec invasion. Battles of Trois-Rivières, Long Island, Trenton, Princeton, Staten Island, Brandywine, Germantown and Rhode Island. Commanded the Sullivan Expedition against the Iroquois. Member of the Continental Congress; Attorney General of New Hampshire; President of New Hampshire. Appointed by President Washington judge of the United States District Court of New Hampshire. Governor of New Hampshire.

Philip Schuyler, Federalist

Major General of the Continental Army. General Schuyler took command of the Northern Department, and planned the Invasion of Canada (1775). He was active in preparing the defense against British invasion in the Saratoga Campaign (1777). Twice elected Federalist U.S. Senator from New York.

Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., Federalist

Served in the Continental Army as a paymaster; comptroller of the treasury 1778-1779; appointed secretary and aide-de-camp to General George Washington in 1781. 2nd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. United States Senator from Connecticut. Federalist Governor of Connecticut (1796 - 1809).

Frederick Frelinghuysen, Federalist

In the War of Independence he served in the New Jersey militia as an artillery captain, seeing action at Trenton and Monmouth. Attained the rank of colonel. Member of the Continental Congress. Served in the New Jersey General Assembly. Member of the New Jersey convention that ratified the United States Constitution in 1787. President George Washington appointed him as brigadier general in the United States Army for the 1790 campaign against the western Indians. Commissioned major general in the New Jersey militia in 1794, during the Whiskey Rebellion. Elected to the United States Senate.

Daniel Webster, Federalist

Federalist Party office holder until 1828. Congressman from New Hampshire (1813 - 1817), Congressman from Massachusetts (1823 - 1827), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, Secretary of State under three Presidents.

Stephen Van Rensselaer, Federalist

Van Rensselaer served in the New York Assembly and Senate. He served as the Federalist Lt. Governor under John Jay. In 1786, Van Rensselaer was made a major of the militia. As a Major General in the War of 1812 he led an army in an invasion of Canada and fought at the Battle of Queenston Heights. In 1813 Van Rensselaer was the Federalist candidate for Governor of New York earning 48% of the vote. A shift of only 1,800 votes would have made him Governor. In 1822 he was elected to Congress as a Federalist serving until 1829.

WILLIAM PATERSON, Federalist

During the Revolutionary War, Paterson served as an officer with the Somerset County Minutemen. Delegate to the Provincial Congress of New Jersey in 1775 and to the State Constitutional Convention in 1776. After helping draft the New Jersey Constitution, he became Attorney General. Delegate to the US Constitutional Convention of 1787. US Senator in the First Federal Congress. Governor of New Jersey. President George Washington nominated Paterson to the US Supreme Court in 1793.

James Hillhouse, Federalist

Hillhouse served as captain in Governor's Foot Guards in the Revolutionary War. He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, Congressman from Connecticut at-large, 1791–96, and a Federalist Party U. S. Senator from Connecticut, 1796–1810. He was the anti-slavery leader of the Congress in the early days of the Republic. After the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, Hillhouse fought to bar the importation of slaves into the Louisiana Territory. "I consider slavery as a serious evil," he proclaimed, "and wish to check it wherever I have authority." Two of Hillhouse's amendments restricting slavery passed the Congress and were signed into law.

John Hoskins Stone, Federalist

Colonel, 1st Maryland Regiment of the Continental Army. Battles of Brooklyn, White Plaines, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth and Stony Point. Wounded at Germantown and as a result was lame for the rest of his life. Seriously wounded at Stony Point and resigned his commission. Governor of Maryland.

Benjamin Tallmadge, Federalist

William Richardson Davie, Federalist

Rising to the rank of Colonel, Davie raised and commanded cavalry units in the Revolution. Seriously wounded at the Battle of Stono Ferry outside Charleston. Fought at the Battle of Charlotte. Served as Commissary-General. Delegate to the Constitutional Convention. President John Adams appointed him a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army. Federalist Governor of North Carolina.

Oliver Ellsworth, Federalist

In 1777 he was chosen as one of Connecticut's representatives in the Continental Congress. Served at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia as a delegate from Connecticut. On June 20, 1787 he proposed the use of the name the United States to identify the nation under the authority of the Constitution. United States Senator from Connecticut. Ellsworth was the principal exponent in the Senate of Alexander Hamilton's economic program. In 1796 Ellsworth was appointed by President George Washington to be Chief Justice of the United States. Served as United States Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of France. Ellsworth was a candidate in the 1796 United States Presidential election, receiving eleven votes in the electoral college.

Winthrop Sargent, Federalist

Enlisted as Lieutenant, Gridley's Regiment of Massachusetts Artillery on July 7, 1775. Served in the Siege of Boston, as well as the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth. He was wounded twice at the Battle of the Wabash, on November 4, 1791. He also served in the Indian wars of 1794 - 1795 and became Adjutant General. Final rank Lieutenant Colonel. Federalist Governor of the Mississippi Territory.

William Moultrie, Federalist

Colonel of the 2nd South Carolina Regiment. Battle of Sullivan's Island, Siege of Savannah, Siege of Charles Town. Prisoner of war for two years. Promoted to Major General. Governor of South Carolina.

Robert Goodloe Harper, Federalist

At the age of fifteen, Harper joined a volunteer corps of Cavalry and served in the American Revolutionary Army. Harper was elected as a Federalist Congressman from South Carolina (1795 - 1801). In 1798 at a dinner in Philadelphia honoring John Marshall, a group of U.S. Congressmen were discussing a recent demand made by the government of France. French vessels had been plundering US ships in a piratical manner. French foreign minister Talleyrand said the attacks would be stopped if the US paid him $250,000 and gave France 50,000 pounds sterling and a $100 million loan. As toasts were made, Harper sent his own defiant reply to the French with this toast: “Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute.” Harper served in the War of 1812, attaining the rank of major general. He moved to Maryland and was elected as a Federalist to the US Senate. He was an unsuccessful Federalist candidate for Vice President in the 1816 election. He also received one electoral vote for Vice President in the 1820 election.

Caleb Strong, Federalist

Delegate to the Constitutional Convention. Elected the first US Senator from Massachusetts. Twice elected Governor of Massachusetts as the nominee of the Federalist Party (1800 - 1807). Strong took a principled stand against the War of 1812 and ran again for Governor opposing "Mr. Madison's War". He served as an anti-war Governor from 1812 - 1816.

Jacob Read, Federalist

Studied law and was admitted to the bar; studied in England 1773-1776; joined other Americans in London in 1774 in a petition against the Boston port bill. Returned to the United States and served South Carolina in various military and civil capacities during the Revolutionary War. Sent with other Americans as a prisoner of the British to St. Augustine 1780-1781. Member of the Continental Congress from South Carolina 1783-1785. Elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate.

General Epaphroditus Champion, Federalist

Champion helped his father gather a herd of cattle and drive them to Valley Forge. He was later named the first Commissary General of the Continental Army. Champion served as captain in the 24th Regiment of the Connecticut State militia rising to brigadier general of the Seventh Brigade from 1800 to 1803. He worked as a merchant, shipowner, exporter and importer. Champion served as a Federalist Congressman from Connecticut 1807 - 1817.

Samuel Huntington, Federalist

Founding Father of the United States. Huntington was an outspoken critic of the Coercive Acts of the British Parliament. Signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. Served as President of the Continental Congress from 1779 to 1781. Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1784 to 1785. Governor of Connecticut from 1786-1796.

Alexander Contee Hanson, Federalist

Member of the Maryland House of Delegates. Editor of the "Federal Republican", a Federalist Party newspaper in Baltimore. Four days after the beginning of the War of 1812 a mob of pro-war Democrat-Republicans destroyed his newspaper office. The paper moved to another building where Hanson was joined by a group of armed allies. When that building was besieged by another mob, Hanson and his group fired, killing two. Hanson and his group surrendered to the militia and were escorted to jail. That evening yet another mob stormed the jail. Hanson was beaten and left for dead. Hanson was elected as a Federalist to Congress in 1812 and 1814. In 1816 he was elected as a Federalist to represent Maryland in the U.S. Senate until his death in 1819 at the age of 33.

William Bingham, Federalist

As a merchant he brought full loads of munitions & guns for the war. Served as a diplomat for Congress to France. Bingham marshaled the Second Troop of Philadelphia Light Horse. He served in the Continental Congress, 1st Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, State Senator, and US Senator. Federalists agreed to hold preliminary votings at the Bingham Estate before propositions were brought before Congress publicly, thus creating unanimity among party lines. Alexander Hamilton sought Bingham as his mentor in managing taxes, tariffs, and in constructing a national bank.

Charles Goldsborough, Federalist

In 1790, Goldsborough was admitted to the bar, and early on held several local political offices. He was also a member of the Maryland State Senate from 1791 to 1795 and later from 1799 to 1801. He was elected as a Federalist to Congress, serving from 1805 to 1817. He also acted as Federalist Party floor leader in the House. He later served as Governor of Maryland in 1818 and 1819.

Ezekiel Whitman, Federalist

Whitman practiced law in New Gloucester, Maine and in Portland, Maine (both communities a district of Massachusetts until 1820). In 1808 Whitman was elected as a Federalist Congressman from Massachusetts and served one term. In 1816 he was again elected as a Federalist to the US House serving from 1817 to 1821. In 1819 he was a delegate to the convention that prepared the constitution which led to Maine's statehood. In 1820 he was elected as a Federalist Congressman from the new state of Maine serving until 1822. Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Court from 1841 to 1848.

William Hunter, Federalist

Federalist U. S. Senator from Rhode Island from 1811 to 1821. Appointed by Andrew Jackson to be the U.S. representative to the Empire of Brazil. He served in this position for 9 years until 1845.

William North, Federalist

Entered the Continental Army in 1775. Served under Benedict Arnold in the invasion of Canada. Captain in Henry Jackson's 16th Massachusetts Regiment, with which he participated in the Battle of Monmouth. 1779 he became aide-de-camp to Baron Steuben and was present at Yorktown. Adjutant General of the United States Army with the rank of brigadier general. Speaker of the New York State Assembly. Federalist U.S. Senator from New York.

David Cobb, Federalist

Cobb studied medicine in Boston and practiced in Taunton, Massachusetts. He was a member of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress in 1775; lieutenant colonel of Jackson’s regiment in 1777 and 1778, serving in Rhode Island and New Jersey; was aide-de-camp on the staff of General George Washington; appointed major general of militia in 1786. Fought in the New York and New Jersey Campaign, the Battles of Springfield, Monmouth, Rhode Island and Shay's Rebellion. He served the Federalist Party as Lt. Governor of Massachusetts, President of the State Senate and Congressman.

Jared Ingersoll, Federalist

Founding Father of the United States. Federalist Party nominee for Vice President in 1812. Delegate to the Second Continental Congress from Pennsylvania. Delegate to the Constitutional Convention. Attorney General of Pennsylvania. United States District Attorney for Pennsylvania.

John Cotton Smith, Federalist

Smith was a Federalist, serving as Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1800, 1806–1807, 1807–1809), as Congressman and Federalist Party floor leader in the House from 1800–1806, the seventh Lieutenant Governor (1811–1812), and finally as the last Federalist Governor of Connecticut from 1812 to 1817.

Josiah Parker, Federalist

In 1775 Parker enlisted in the Continental Army. He was commissioned a major in the 5th Virginia Regiment in 1776 and became its colonel in 1778. His regiment served in Virginia under General Charles Lee and was transferred to George Washington. The regiment thereafter saw action at the Battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth and the Siege of Charleston. During Cornwallis's Virginia campaign in 1781, the notorious Colonel Tarleton ransacked his home. He was elected to the First US Congress from Virginia serving for twelve years.

Daniel Cady, Federalist

Cady was a member of the New York State Assembly, District Attorney, Judge and Federalist Party Congressman from New York. As a lawyer he worked cases with Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and Abraham Lincoln. In 1856, Cady was a presidential elector on the Republican John C. Fremont ticket. He was the father of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, an abolitionist and leading figure of the early women's rights movement.

Louis McLane, Federalist

During the War of 1812 McLane joined the Wilmington Artillery Company serving as a 1st Lieutenant. McLane was elected as a Federalist to the U.S. House of Representatives from Delaware (1817 to 1827). He served for four years as the Federalist Party floor leader in the House. He went on to be US Senator representing the National Republican Party (Adams). McLane also was Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of State and Minister to the United Kingdom.

William Stephens Smith, Federalist

Smith married Abigail "Nabby" Adams, the daughter of President John Adams, and so was a brother-in-law of President John Quincy Adams, and an uncle of Charles Francis Adams. Served in the Revolutionary Army as aide-de-camp to General John Sullivan. Fought in the Battle of Long Island, was wounded at Harlem Heights, Battle of White Plains, was promoted to lieutenant colonel at the Battle of Trenton, fought at the Battle of Monmouth and Newport. He was on the staff of General Lafayette, became an adjutant in the Corps of Light Infantry, then transferred to the staff of George Washington. Elected as a Federalist Congressman from New York.

Timothy Pitkin, Federalist

Pitkin served in the State Legislature of Connecticut in 1790, 1792, and 1794‑1805, and as Speaker 1803‑1805. He was elected as a Federalist to the United States Congress serving from 1805 to 1819. He acted as Federalist Party floor leader in the House for eight years. During his leadership the Federalist Party grew in strength adding 32 new Congressmen in the 1812 elections by opposing "Mr. Madison's War."

Oliver Wolcott, Jr., Federalist

Wolcott was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by George Washington in 1795 to succeed Alexander Hamilton. He continued at Treasury under John Adams until 1800. President John Adams appointed him as a Federal judge on the United States Circuit Court. His judgeship was abolished by Jeffersonian Republicans in an attempt to intimidate the independent Federal Courts. In 1817 he was elected Governor of Connecticut as a member of the new Toleration Republican Party.

John Rutledge, Jr., Federalist

Rutledge served as Congressman from South Carolina. A passionate Federalist, he supported Aaron Burr against Jefferson, founding the Charleston Courier (predecessor of the Post and Courier) to support his causes. Joining the South Carolina Militia in 1799, Rutledge served as commander of the Twenty-eighth Regiment in the War of 1812. He subsequently commanded the Seventh Brigade from 1816 until his death. Rutledge's life was fraught with controversy. Catching his wife (mother to his nine children) in a "clandestine visit" with Dr. Horace Senter, Rutledge challenged him to a duel, fatally wounding the doctor.

John Sergeant, Federalist

Member of the Pennsylvania state house of representatives 1808-1810; elected as a Federalist to Congress and served from 1815, to 1823. Sergeant was a strong backer of Henry Clay's American System and the Second Bank of the United States, and even traveled to Europe to negotiate loans to the Bank. He was a strong opponent of slavery who voted against the Missouri Compromise. In 1826 he was an envoy to the Panama Congress. Elected to Congress as an Adams candidate 1827 to 1829. Failing re-election he became legal counsel to the Bank of the United States. Sergeant was the Vice Presidential running mate in Henry Clay's campaign on the National Republican ticket in 1832. Elected as a Whig to Congress serving from 1837 to 1841.

John Laurance, Federalist

Born in England, he emigrated to the United States in 1767 and settled in New York City. Laurance received an officer's commission in the First New York regiment. He was appointed aide-de-camp to Washington in 1777. He presided over the spy trial of Major André. Served in the Continental Congress, the New York State Assembly, State Senate and the 1st United States Congress. Appointed by George Washington to the Federal bench. Elected as a Federalist US Senator from New York.

William Loughton Smith, Federalist

In 1774 he studied law in London, England. Practiced law in Charleston. Elected from South Carolina as a Pro-Administration candidate to the 1st, 2nd and 3 Congresses. Re-elected as a Federalist to the 4th and 5th Congresses. Appointed by John Adams as United States Minister to Portugal and Spain. Commissioned Minister to the Ottoman Porte on February, 1799.

Thomas Forrest, Federalist

During the American Revolutionary War Forrest was commissioned a captain in Colonel Thomas Proctor's Pennsylvania Artillery Battalion in 1776. He led a 52-man company of artillery at the Battle of Trenton. He ended his service at a Lieutenant Colonel. He was elected as a Federalist Congressman from Pennsylvania from 1819 to 1823.

Philip Barton Key, Federalist

Key had been a Loyalist in the American Revolution. He served in the Maryland Loyalists Battalion as a captain. Key fought with the British Army from 1777 to 1781, until he was captured by the Spanish in Pensacola, Florida with the rest of his battalion. After the war he served as Mayor of Annapolis & member of the Maryland House of Delegates. Appointed a Federal Judge by John Adams. He was a Counsel to Justice Samuel Chase during Chase's Jefferson ordered impeachment show-trial in 1805. Elected as a Federalist to Congress from Maryland (1807 - 1813). Francis Scott Key was his nephew.

Aaron Ogden, Federalist

Lieutenant in the 1st New Jersey Regiment, rising to the rank of brigade major. Wounded at the siege of Yorktown in 1781. Federalist U.S. Senator and Governor of New Jersey.

CHARLES POLK, FEDERALIST

Federalist Governor of Delaware. The Federalist Party selected Polk as their candidate for Governor in 1826. After a hard fought campaign he was narrowly elected. Polk is the last known major officeholder representing the Federalist Party. He left office January 19, 1830.

Alexander Hamilton, Federalist

Founding Father of the United States. Co-Author of the Federalist Papers. Founder and leader of the Federalist Party. Enlisted in the Revolution as Lieutenant of New York Provincial Company of Artillery rising to the rank of Major General in 1799. Fought in the Battles of Harlem Heights, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth and Yorktown. Served with General Washington in the Whiskey Rebellion. Appointed by John Adams Commander of a new army in the Quasi-War. Elected in 1782 to the Congress of the Confederation as a New York representative. Delegate to the Constitutional Convention. President George Washington appointed Hamilton as the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.

Charles Pinckney, Federalist

Founding Father of the United States. 1804 and 1808 Federalist Party nominee for President. Joined the Continental Army in 1775 as Captain of the elite Grenadiers of the 1st South Carolina Regiment. Served in the Battle of Sullivan's Island rising to the rank of Colonel. Fought at the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Alligator Bridge, the Siege of Savannah and American expedition attempting to seize British East Florida. In 1780 with the surrender of the American Army at the Siege of Charleston, Pinckney became a POW. Upon his release two years later he was commissioned a brevet Brigadier General. Delegate to the Constitutional Convention. Served as George Washington's United States Minister to France (1796 - 1797). Pinckney was the Federalist Party candidate for Vice President in the election of 1800. Pinckney famously said, "If I had a vein that did not beat with the love of my Country, I myself would open it. If I had a drop of blood that could flow dishonorable, I myself would let it out."

Rufus King, Federalist

Founding Father of the United States. 1816 Federalist Party nominee for President. In 1778 King volunteered for militia duty in the Revolution. Appointed a major and served in the Battle of Rhode Island. Member of the Continental Congress from Massachusetts 1784-1787. Delegate to the Constitutional Convention where he worked closely with Alexander Hamilton on the Committee of Style and Arrangement to prepare the final draft. United States Senator from New York in 1789; re-elected in 1795 and served from July, 1789, until May 1796, when he resigned to become Minister to Great Britain (1796-1803). Federalist Party candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1804 and in 1808. Again elected as Federalist United States Senator from New York in 1813; re-elected in 1819 and served to 1825. Appointed by John Quincy Adams as United States Minister to Great Britain (1825-1826). Anti-slavery activist.

John Eager Howard, Federalist

1816 Federalist Party candidate for Vice President. Commissioned a Captain at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, Howard rose to the rank of Colonel in the Continental Army. Fought in the Battle of White Plains and in the Battle of Monmouth. He was awarded a silver medal by Congress for his leadership at the Battle of Cowpens, during which he commanded the 3rd Maryland Regiment, Continental Army. Elected to the Continental Congress in 1778. Governor of Maryland. Elected as a Federalist in 1796 to the United States Senate. Received 22 electoral votes for Vice President as the running mate of Federalist Rufus King.

John Jay, Federalist

Founding Father of the United States. Co-Author of the Federalist Papers. Secretary to the New York Committee of Correspondence, where he represented the conservative faction that was interested in protecting property rights and in preserving the rule of law. Delegate to the First Continental Congress in 1774. United States Minister to Spain (1779 - 1782). Diplomat with Benjamin Franklin in Paris to end the war with Britain. United States Secretary for Foreign Affairs under the Confederation. Appointed 1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by George Washington. Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain. Federalist Governor of New York (1795 - 1801). Anti-slavery activist. In 1799 as Governor he signed a bill into law for the emancipation of slaves in New York.

Dr. John Brooks, Federalist

Brooks began his medical practice in Reading, where he became the Captain of the Reading Minutemen. He led them in the Battle of Concord and at Bunker Hill. He accepted a commission as Captain in the Continental Army and took part in battles in White Plains, and Long Island. Wintered with General Washington at Valley Forge. Appointed Major General of the Middlesex Militia in 1786, which he led in suppressing Shays' Rebellion. He was appointed Adjutant General (1812–1816). He won the governorship of Massachusetts with the Federalist Party in 1816.

John Marshall, Federalist

Marshall served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Lieutenant in the Culpeper Minutemen from 1775 to 1776, and went on to serve as a Lieutenant and then a Captain in the Eleventh Virginia Continental Regiment from 1776 to 1780. Marshall endured the brutal winter conditions at Valley Forge (1777–1778). Special Commissioner to France in 1797 - 1798. Elected as a Federalist Congressman from Virginia. United States Secretary of State for John Adams. Appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1801 - 1835).

Gouverneur Morris, Federalist

Founding Father of the United States. Delegate to the Continental Congress. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation. Pennsylvania delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Morris was elected to serve on a committee of five which drafted the final language of the proposed constitution. But it was his pen that was responsible for most of the draft, as well as its final polished form. Morris is widely credited as the author of the Constitution's preamble. Morris thought that common people were incapable of self-government because he feared that the poor would sell their votes to the rich. (Time has proven him right.) Gouverneur Morris was one of the few delegates at the Philadelphia Convention who spoke openly against slavery. Served as Minister Plenipotentiary to France from 1792 - 1794. Elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate from New York. - . . . . . . . "The proudest empire in Europe is but a bubble compared to what America will be, must be, in the course of two centuries, perhaps of one." - - - - Gouverneur Morris (Author of the Constitution of the United States)

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